Famous Deaths on 26 May

Famous Deaths on 26 May

1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 - Alse Young, American "witch"
1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1818 - Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
1968 - Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; b. 1889)
1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1976 - Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
1977 - William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
1978 - Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1979 - George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 - Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
2007 - J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
2008 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921)